There are various themes within in the play which I find important. The themes vary from death to physical …show more content…
Although it was less dramatic as the forest scene it was still very important to the development of the storyline. This was Act 2, scene 1. In This scene the Bride is preparing for her wedding and there is an unexpected visit from Leonardo. This is a climactic scene because it is when the Bride begins to doubt her marriage to the Bridegroom and remembers her the love for Leonardo. It is dramatic in the sense that he declares his love for the Bride. “What use was it pretending you didn’t exist? … None . . . none at all. I burned all the more.” (Lorca and Johsnton 60). Suddenly the Bride is torn. She knows that Leonardo is married and that she should go on to marry the Bridegroom. However the audience is now made aware of a previous love that burned and the doubts that are circulating in the Brides mind. She goes to the church to follow through with the marriage and Leonardo follows behind to witness the matrimony. He follows with his wife and this is seen and the end of the scene. Their dialogue shows a growing tension between the two of them and the frustration bore by Leonardo. All of this frustration contrasts with the jovial singing of the guests building the tension. The audience gets the sense from this scene that this is not the end and something more will happen. The developments in this scene make it a climactic …show more content…
This exercise will help them merge bodies with the character they will be playing. They need to become the character rather than playing themselves. They are taking the object or person for their own. I will ask them to concentrate hard and close their eyes. I would ask them to picture their character in front of them. Picture their hair, their clothes, their height, and their eye colour, everything about them that makes them unique. I would go on to get them to imagine their character doing everyday tasks from reading a book to preparing dinner. Then slowly get the character to walk towards them and step into their bodies. The actors will then take on the characteristics of their character. As Michael Chekhov puts it “the last step is to ‘take’ the object and keep it – to such an extent that you will not know whether the object has you, or you have the object.” (Chekhov 44). The aim of work shopping this exercise would to give the actors a new understanding of the characters and help them present these characters